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"To Algiers, in the desert, and then further." "But you are returning to your regiment?" "God forbid. I have an unlimited furlough." "By my life, it requires a corkscrew in order to get the words out of your mouth! Plainly told, what mean all these preliminaries?" "Well, you know already that the son of Madame Mercedes, Captain Joliette, has disappeared. I am attached to my captain and "
And every day on the march you would see some poor old ragged rebel riding his fine gray mare, and he was walking. The other person I wish to speak of is Captain Joe P. Lee. Captain Henry J. Webster was our regular captain, but was captured while on furlough, sent to a northern prison and died there, and Joe went up by promotion.
Baly served as Chaplain at Sealkote, Simla, and Allahabad until 1870, when, while on furlough in England, he acted as Rector of Falmouth until 1872. In 1885 he was appointed chaplain at the church in Windsor Park, built by Queen Victoria, in which appointment he died in 1909, aged eighty-five.
Shall I close the shutters?" "If you do," said Miss Howe delightedly, "we shall not be able to see." "Neither we should," he assented; "the others are closed already. Very badly built these Calcutta houses, aren't they? Have you been long in India, Miss Captain Filbert?" "I served a year up-country, and then fell ill and had to go home on furlough. The native food didn't suit me.
It had not been practised at all in the preceding year, having been introduced by Shuffles and Monroe, who had visited a prop saloon in the city where they resided, during their late furlough. Each of them had brought a set of props on board, with which they intended to amuse themselves during the voyage.
I will see to it, in the morning, that you have a furlough for a month. I think we shall do nothing more for a month, and you may need that time to get a new arm. Take Miss Hobart at once to New York, and place her with your sister. That is all now look for a place in one of the wagons. Good night I will see about the rest before the boat leaves."
The army remained substantially the same as during the march from Atlanta, with the exception of a few changes in the commanders of brigades and divisions, the addition of some men who had joined from furlough, and the loss of others from the expiration of their term of service.
The number on the rolls January 31, 1893, was 1,196; of these, 824 were present at the Home, some receiving outside assistance, and some being absent on furlough. A heroic statue in bronze of Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, by Launt Thompson, was erected in 1874 on the most commanding point of the grounds. Aside from the artistic finish of the statue, it is a wonderful likeness of the subject.
"Dear me," she said. "They've been waiting for a good many years," commented Hetty, without emotion. "Of course, Mrs. Wrandall, you understand that I am not one of those who will profit by his death. The estate is entailed. I am quite outside the walls." "I did not know the ah " "My father may come in for a small interest. He is in England at present on furlough.
A man deserted from the regiment, was discovered hidden in a chimney in the district where he had lived, was taken back to camp, went to Florida in Higginson's first expedition, bore his part well in the skirmishes, became excited with the service, was made a sergeant, and, receiving a furlough on his return, went to the plantation where he had hid, and said he would not take five thousand dollars for his place.
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